This casebook presents a functional approach to Trusts and Estates. In addition to a focus on recent cases, the book uses questions and problems to focus student attention on issues that face estate planners, litigators and policy makers. In each chapter, it integrates discussion of drafting and planning issues with its treatment of doctrine and policy. In addition, …
This title is a functional approach to trusts and estates, using questions and problems to focus student attention on issues that face estate planners, litigators and policy makers. It integrates discussion of drafting and planning issues with its treatment of doctrine and policy. The 4th edition offers: a new chapter on the importance of integrating non-probate mechanisms into …
The Second Edition of Concepts and Insights on Trusts and Estates makes complex doctrinal rules easier to understand by exploring the history and rationale behind those rules. The analysis is thorough, and focuses both on common law doctrines and statutory reforms―with an emphasis on the Uniform Probate Code (including the 2008 amendments). Each substantive chapter closes with a …
This casebook provides an overview of the wide range of legal and ethical issues facing lawyers in practice. As did prior editions, the Fifth Edition integrates discussion of the ABA’s Model Rules, the ALI’s Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers, as well as case law, statutory law, and regulatory law governing lawyers. Many sections of the …
Cases on Reproductive Rights and Justice (University Casebook Series)
The first casebook on the subject marks the contours of the field and provides a comprehensive understanding of the law and legal discourse relating to state regulation of sex, bodies, families, and reproduction. This compilation of rich historical and contemporary primary and secondary materials, accompanied by rigorous legal analysis, considers the economic, political, legal, and social factors that …
Family Law: Cases and Materials, 6th Edition (University Casebook)
The Sixth Edition continues a long tradition of innovation the casebook is widely known and prized for. Preserving the best of earlier editions, the casebook delivers an up-to-date overview of U.S. Family Law that weaves together black-letter rules, policy, narrative, history, transnational sources, and theory, into an accessible and teachable whole. The book is written with an eye …
Transnational Business Problems (University Casebook Series)
The Fifth Edition Transnational Business Problems combines the best aspects of a conceptual, systemic approach and a problems approach. It provides a sophisticated intellectual framework for understanding the most significant contractual and regulatory issues in international business. At fewer than 700 pages, this compact book is ideal for a one-semester course.One volume. Transnational Business Problems presents the important …
Approximately 25 cents out of every dollar spent by American consumers is for a commodity regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. The agency has jurisdiction over food, drugs, cosmetics, medical devices, biological products, animal food and drugs, and tobacco products, as well as electronic products that emit radiation and products that spread communicable disease. FDA regulation thus …
Food and Drug Law: 2014 Statutory Supplement Revised (Selected Statutes)
This compilation includes the completely updated Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, plus selected additional federal statutes important to food and drug law. This edition is current through October, 2014 and includes the amendments made by the Drug Quality and Security Act. This Revised 2014 Edition does not reflect any substantive changes in the law since the publication …
Patent, Copyright, Trademark, Unfair Competition, Selected Statutes International Agreements
This compact volume contains all of the key patent, copyright, trademark, and unfair competition statutes and related international agreements in a form convenient for student use. This edition incorporates all of the changes made by the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), which substantially rewrote the U.S. Patent Act and became fully effective in March 2013, as well as …